Plural of compend; multiple brief summaries or condensed versions of larger works.
The plural of compend, formed by adding -s. Compend is an older English form of compendium, from Latin compendium, originally meaning 'a saving of expense' but later 'a condensed version.'
Compends feels like a word from a time capsule—medieval scholars absolutely used it, and it appears in 16th- and 17th-century texts, but by the 1800s it vanished in favor of compendiums. It's a perfect example of how synonyms don't peacefully coexist; one typically drives the others toward extinction.
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